Home › About

About Tantuvāya

तन्तुवाय means “the weaver.” The Aṣṭādhyāyī is a woven thing — and this site is an attempt to read it that way.

What this is

A calm, fast interface over the open data that powers ashtadhyayi.com. The original site is the reference standard for Pāṇinian study online; this is a re-imagining of the reading experience — the same content, a different room to read it in.

Where the data comes from

Every sūtra, dhātu, meaning, word-split, and reference is taken verbatim from the publicly released dataset at github.com/ashtadhyayi-com/data, curated by Śrī Nīlesh and a community of contributors. Nothing here is invented or paraphrased. Where the source dataset has no English gloss for a sūtra, this site says so and links back to the original rather than filling the gap.

What’s included

This static build ships the learner-facing core, in full:

· 3,983 sūtras — Devanagari, transliteration, pada-cccheda, rule type, anuvṛtti and adhikāra threads, English meaning and Vasu’s summary, the Kāśikāvṛtti, a concise and a detailed Sanskrit explanation, and Kātyāyana’s vārttikas where the source provides them.
· 2,259 dhātus — gaṇa, pada, Sanskrit/English/Hindi meanings, and upasarga-modified senses.
· The Gaṇapāṭha (262 gaṇas), Uṇādi sūtras (748), Paribhāṣenduśekhara (133 meta-rules), Liṅgānuśāsana (189), Pāṇinīya Śikṣā (60 verses), and the Phiṭ sūtras (87).
· 14 Śiva sūtras and 52 pratyāhāras.

All of it is searchable from one box and cross-linked: a reference like (1.1.1) inside any commentary is a live link to that sūtra.

What is not bundled: the deeper running commentaries (Nyāsa, Padamañjarī, Siddhānta-kaumudī, Bālamanoramā, Tattvabodhinī, Mahābhāṣya), the kośa dictionaries, the recorded audio, and the complete conjugation/declension paradigms. Together these run to well over a gigabyte and are served from a database that needs a live server to query — so they remain on the source site, and every detail page links straight to them. This build is an honest, large superset of the previous one, not a copy of the entire site.

How it’s built

Plain HTML, CSS, and JavaScript — no framework, no build step, no dependencies. Fonts are bundled locally (Noto Serif Devanagari, Spectral, Fraunces, JetBrains Mono), so it works fully offline and drops onto any static host as-is. The entire interface is drawn from a fixed eight-color palette.

Thanks

To Śrī Nīlesh and everyone maintaining ashtadhyayi.com, and to the long line of scholars — Pāṇini, Kātyāyana, Patañjali, Kaiyaṭa, Nāgeśa — whose threads we’re still following.

Start reading →